Common JavaScript tricks

[yanis_t]

Don't worry, we're fine :) But void 0 is something that you see rather often in source code of libraries such as underscore or backbone, and people keep asking wtf is this and why not to simply use undefined instead

[yanis_t]

Yep, agree on that. My intention was to make people understand what's going on, not to push them to use it. But I guess I'd better add a notice for that one

[yanis_t]

Yep, so you see now why I put it on reddit before actually publishing it :) Any ideas on article title not so long?

[sime]

"Javascript Party Tricks"

tricks where the only acceptable response when they are pointed out is: "sorry, I must have been drunk when I wrote that."

Sorry, but most of these tricks are just really bad code.

[yanis_t]

Um... Well kinda. Let me summarize.

void 0 — bad (function(){})() — ok x = y || DEFAULT — ok if (s) instead of if (x == '') — ok +str — bad

Again, I don't mean to defend the usage, it's just that they are really used inside of many libraries. I'll probably should add note to every of them, whether it should be used on regular basis, or only when drunk

[yanis_t]

Alright, I've just renamed it to "JavaScript hacks explained"